Month: November 2014

These are some street snaps. Imagine people are really walking around like this. Kind of different from our , in comparison to this japanese stile, quite dull fashion. Maybe we should get some inspiration how to dress when going out 🙂 I would love to go to Tokyo to see this live

Today, I went to Munich Residenz for the first time. I expected an interesting museum but saw a grandiose one. The rooms were so spectacular that one could spent hours watching them. And I have never seen so much gold at one place (except churches) as here. Truly amazing. On the other hand it makes me wonder what kind of a system it was when people here were literally starving, while the rich ones were having tons of gold… In any case I took so many pictures that the next round will be published tomorrow.

Yesterday, was a great documentary about the church (roman-catholic) and its way of handling money. It was almost that I couldn´t believe it is true. Imagine having a business with over 3000 branches only in Germany? Imagine now that this business doesn´t have any documents, is not paying taxes but is also received over 500.000.000 Euros (church tax not included) per year from the German state. Further, the church is keeping kindergartens, schools and hospitals with absolutely no control if people working there have the right competence except that they are church members. Since, it is easier just to pay then take a proper action to start new schools and hospitals the state is paying for all this. This means that the state practically pays for an institution to discriminate people not being church members, which is illegal according to the law. Further, in Germany as well as in the rest of the world no one, except the Vatikan, knows exactly how much real property the church owns. A bishop (maybe even cardinal, I do not recall) calculated that the minimal value of the property of roman catholic church lies around 200 billions (200.000.000.000) Euro…only in Germany. This bishop is fighting for the church members´ right to know how much money and real estates the church has and where exactly the money payed by the church members goes. In Rome, for example, experts calculate that at least every 3rd building is owned by the church. In Germany, Munich was mentioned, it´s the same. In Munich, it was only clear that an apartment of some cardinal was renovated for some 8.000.000 Euro. Now, as an atheist, I wonder how the church members can be persuaded or inspired (however you see it) to pay taxes for the church while the church literally swims in money?

Past few days, I´ve been inspired to cook some dishes I haven´t prepared in ages. This chicken curry I learned by a person I met when I just moved to Germany . This, she told me was a dish from the northern part of India. It is funny how food can be connected with memories…

My poor husband is sick so I decided to surprise him with his favorite cake Čupavci. Translated from Bosnian the cake is called the Hairy cake. Ada also managed to sit by herself for the first time, which also calls for a celebration. You are welcome to taste the cake (as long as there is some ) 🙂

Ada realized it is fun to play at 5.00h this morning. We tried to make her sleep, and she did after she had finished playing. My husband wanted to continue his “beauty sleep” but I “kicked him out” from the bed, so he can come back home from his job earlier… Me and Ada fell asleep immidiately 😛 Nice as he is, my husband didn´t want to wake us up so he wrote a note to wish me happy birthday with a “P.s You kicked dad out from the bed, but you yourself continued sleeping…” I sense some jealousy here 🙂